Ray McNulty

Florida

Reporter and Columnist at Vero News

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School District expands program giving kids free summer meals

1 week ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

For years, the School District has been offering in June and July free breakfasts and lunches to children in the county, providing a community service that Superintendent David Moore said helps keep students healthy during summer-vacation months. “It might not be the best meal of the day, but, for some kids, it’s the only consistent meals they’re getting,” Moore said recently. “We see a need in the community, and we’re able to respond without spending any local tax dollars.
Breeze flights from Vero fall as summer arrives

1 week ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

After a winter that saw a dramatic increase in the number of blue Breeze Airways jets flying into and out of Vero Beach Regional Airport, the arrival of summer has seen the number of flights drop dramatically. Breeze’s monthly departures from Vero Beach climbed to an all-time high of 154 in March, according to 2025 statistics provided by Airport Director Todd Scher, before sliding to 145 in April and 103 in May.
Sheriff’s budget pitch panned by two in know

1 week ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

There’s nothing wrong with Sheriff Eric Flowers campaigning hard for his proposed $93.5 million budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year – a spending plan he claims is necessary to properly compensate, retain and hire deputies charged with providing the level of law enforcement we desire in our growing county.
Firefighter burnout issue merits workable solution

2 weeks ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office last week announced he had signed into law a multi-faceted, firefighters-welfare bill that limits their standard work week to 42 hours to “reduce burnout” on the job. Turns out, though, the announcement wasn’t entirely accurate. The new law merely encourages local jurisdictions like Indian River County that employ Florida’s firefighters to adopt the recommended work-week restriction.
Expanded services no threat to county charm

3 weeks ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

Don’t read too much into the County Commission’s recent decision to expand the Urban Services Boundary for the first time since the lines were drawn in 1990. Contrary to what you might’ve read or heard in the aftermath of that controversial May 20 vote, the commissioners aren’t caving to pressure from greedy developers who see our county as the next frontier to become engulfed by the hellish urban sprawl we see to our south.
Clearpath: Waterfront work at Three Corners could start next year

3 weeks ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

Clearpath Services President Randy Lloyd said last week that if his development group’s soon-to-begin negotiations with Vero Beach city officials are successful, work at the Three Corners site could begin as soon as next year – with the initial phase of the project completed in 2028. The first phase would involve the easternmost section of the 17-acre lagoon-front property: construction of the Clearpath plan’s waterfront village, marina and docks.
New finance director: Audit mess ‘baffling’

1 month ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

More than four months after she was hired to be Vero Beach’s assistant finance director, Lisa Burnham still doesn’t understand why her now-former boss apparently did not see any need for additional resources to meet a state deadline for filing an already overdue audit.
Rose now Hall eligible: ‘What would Fay say?’

1 month ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

When Commissioner Rob Manfred announced last week that he was removing the names of Pete Rose and 15 others from Major League Baseball’s “permanent ineligible list,” my thoughts immediately went to longtime John’s Island resident Fay Vincent, who died on Feb. 1.
Will county take over Vero’s lifeguard operations?

1 month ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

For at least the past four years, Vero Beach officials have raised the possibility of the county taking over – and absorbing the costs of – the lifeguard operations on the city’s beaches. Vero taxpayers will spend more than $860,000 this year – in personnel and operating expenses – for lifeguard coverage of Vero’s three beaches.
Be wary so sleazeballs can’t ‘cop’ more victims

1 month ago | veronews.com | Ray McNulty

Hang up and call the cops. At the real police department number. That was the $12,000 lesson learned by a St. Edward’s School faculty member who responded to a phone message earlier this month left by what she believed was a Vero police officer, and in doing so became the latest victim of a well-orchestrated scam. The initial voice-mail message, in fact, was left on her father’s cell phone, presumably because the family-phone-plan bill is in his name.